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Wednesday

September 12, 2012
I can't believe we did this again.   Went to another Time Share Presentation just to save $180 on a guided trip to Hana tomorrow.   You trade two hours of your precioius time listening to skilled sales people show you how you can make your life better by committing another $50,000 or so so your vacations can be more fun with no fees when you check out of the 4,000 glorious Wyndham resortsall over the world.   It definitely is a better plan than what we have with our two time shares.  And the point system and Wyndhams plan is appealing if we had the money.  Even trading our two timeshares each year with Wyndham, for $22,000. and only $42.50 a month in maintenance fees for the rest of our lives, we could go anywhere and do what ever we want with our children. 
Problem????? It is all about luxury in an age when the world is so uncertain and luxury not so necessary.   There are far greater things to do with our resources.

Andrea was beautiful and  compelling.  As all the other sales persons are,  they work hard to make it make sense to the happy vacationers while they are living in paradise and dreaming lofty dreams of bigger and better vacations.  And when you say "NO" they have a lesser plan for you.  And  once again we say "NO" walking away feeling a tiny bit guilty and sorry for the pretty sales lady who worked so hard and did an excellent job and wasting her 2 1/2 or 3 hours on a no sale.

So we returned to our room.  Had our lunch on the lanai of BBQ which Ken bought off of a big smoker truck last night.  Probably our cheapest meal so far but enough BBQ ribs and chicken with all the fixens for two meals.

It is our 5th day in Maui and we don't know what we want to do with the rest of this day.  So we take a nap, blog a bit, look at each other and discuss a plan.  The sun is glorious, the water a turquoise blue like no other I've ever seen.    Are we growing old or what?

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